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No, anything above 720p which is the best you can get for low-trust clients


define "low trust". Firefox with resistfingerprinting, DRM disabled, a VPN connection can view 4K videos just fine.


Low trust as in intended to be used by 3rd parties without Javascript or any form of attestation. Like the Wii U client or I think the iframe embeds at one point.

(maybe they've all been killed by now, I haven't been paying too much attention...)


All of what you're describing jumps to trustworthy if you're signed in. yt-dlp tries to work without any login.




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